Word: faked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Government and Major Belmonte, in a full-dress, press-radio-news-reel interview in Berlin this week, vehemently called the letter a fake, hinted strongly that it had been forged...
...chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds are tried. His hand writing and physical appearance are analyzed. As a test of leadership, he is given a group of infantry soldiers whom...
Groucho on the trio's retirement: "Our stuff is stale. So are we. . . . The fake mustache, the dumb harp player, and the little Italian who chased the ladies were funny at first. But it became harder with each picture to top the one before. To get out of the groove we have to get out of the movies...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
...model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...